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architecture and design magazineTue, 03 Mar 2015 22:00:26 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1Designers convert lifeguard towers into winter pavilions for Toronto's frozen beacheshttp://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/02/winter-stations-toronto-frozen-beaches-converted-lifeguard-towers-pavilions-installations-swings/
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/02/winter-stations-toronto-frozen-beaches-converted-lifeguard-towers-pavilions-installations-swings/#commentsMon, 02 Mar 2015 22:00:32 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=655376Lifeguard outposts along Toronto's frozen waterfront have been converted into a series of installations and pavilions, including a set of bright red swings and a spiky timber folly (+ slideshow). Winter Stations is the first instalment of an annual public art competition launched by a trio of local studios – RAW, Ferris + Associates and Curio – to revitalise Toronto's frozen […]

]]>Lifeguard outposts along Toronto's frozen waterfront have been converted into a series of installations and pavilions, including a set of bright red swings and a spiky timber folly (+ slideshow).Sling Swing by WMB Studio

Winter Stations is the first instalment of an annual public art competition launched by a trio of local studios – RAW, Ferris + Associates and Curio – to revitalise Toronto's frozen beaches during the cold season.

Taking the theme of warmth, five teams were invited to convert a series of simple metal lifeguard lookouts along Kew-Balmy Beach on the edge of Lake Ontario into installations for winter.

Sling Swing by WMB Studio

"Sometimes Torontonians need to be prodded into heading outdoors during the winter months," said the organisers.

Sling Swing by WMB Studio

"The goal with winter stations is to infuse colour and vibrancy back into the beach community, which is so lively in the summer months, but tends to slow down come winter," added Roland Rom Colthoff of RAW.

Driftwood Throne by DM_Studio

Loops of vivid red fabric were suspended from scaffolding erected around one watchtower to create Sling Swing, a reimagining of a deckchair by British designers WMB Studio.

Driftwood Throne by DM_Studio

The fabric slings are intended to create cocoons of warmth for winter beach visitors, protecting them from the harsh winds. When unoccupied, the loops of material sway in the breeze.

Driftwood Throne by DM_Studio

London designers DM_Studio used planks of pale timber to transform another lifeguard stand into a pointed form called Driftwood Throne.

Driftwood Throne by DM_Studio

Wide steps lead up to an opening where a small bench forms a lookout point. Ground-level benches recessed into nooks on either side of the structure are sheltered under the pointed wings of the structure.

Snowcone by Diana Koncan and Lily Jeon

Diana Koncan and Lily Jeon, architecture and engineering students from nearby Ryerson University, produced Snowcone. Shaped like a pine cone, the shelter comprises a metal frame and rainbow-coloured translucent skin.

Snowcone by Diana Koncan and Lily Jeon

Triangular fins radiate from the exterior of the round structure, allowing it to catch snow.

HotBox by Michaela MacLeod and Nicholas Croft

A cuboid called Hotbox is draped with black fabric and contains a cell with spongey walls, where visitors are insulated from the horizontal winds that are common in the area.

HotBox by Michaela MacLeod and Nicholas Croft

Created by Michaela MacLeod and Nicholas Croft, both based in Toronto, the shelter has a single hole in its roof that allows a small amount of daylight and precipitation into the interior.

Wing Back by Tim Olson

Taking cues from the classic wingback armchair, New Hampshire architect and designer Tim Olson produced Wing Back – a rounded fortress-like structure made from pale timber batons.

Wing Back by Tim Olson

Inside the slats are stained bright red, acting as a beacon to encourage visitors to gather on a semi-circular bench around a fire within its tall, sheltering walls.

Wing Back by Tim Olson

"Each installation establishes a relationship to the transformed, almost Arctic landscape with these massive ice formations and plays with the experience of being along the water, which takes on unique qualities and feelings this time of year," said Justin Ridgeway of Curio.

The competition was supported by the City of Toronto and funded by a range of sponsors. The five installations will be on show at Kew-Balmy Beach until 20 March.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2015/03/02/winter-stations-toronto-frozen-beaches-converted-lifeguard-towers-pavilions-installations-swings/feed/0Warming Huts provide shelter for ice-skaters on Winnipeg's frozen riverhttp://www.dezeen.com/2015/02/28/warming-huts-ice-skater-shelter-winnipeg-frozen-river/
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/02/28/warming-huts-ice-skater-shelter-winnipeg-frozen-river/#commentsSat, 28 Feb 2015 18:00:21 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=653624A cafe in a cross-shaped tent, a mirrored hideaway and a pop-up art gallery are among the shelters that architects have dotted along a frozen river in Winnipeg, Canada (+ slideshow). Warming Huts is an annual international design competition for small structures to be installed at The Forks, an area of Winnipeg where the mouths of the Red […]

]]>A cafe in a cross-shaped tent, a mirrored hideaway and a pop-up art gallery are among the shelters that architects have dotted along a frozen river in Winnipeg, Canada (+ slideshow).Mirror Cloaking by University of Manitoba students

Warming Huts is an annual international design competition for small structures to be installed at The Forks, an area of Winnipeg where the mouths of the Red River and Assiniboine River meet and freeze during winter months.

Mirror Cloaking by University of Manitoba students

This year's winning designs include Mirror Cloaking by students from the University of Manitoba Winnipeg, which uses one-way mirrors and polished stainless-steel panels to create a reflective box from the outside and a viewing cabin from the inside.

"The design plays with the idea that the enclosed structure become transparent and visitors can still find warmth within an 'open' space," explained the team.

York Boat Gallery by Chris and Kine

A canvas dome forms the roof of the York Boat Gallery, a pop-up art gallery on the ice by local artist collective Chris and Kine, while Hybrid Hut by Mexican studio Rojkind Arquitectos was built using a series of split logs, which create a spiky curved shelter for a bench.

The Hybrid Hut by Rojkind Arquitectos

The architects combined traditional craftsmanship with 3D-modelling technology to produce the humped form of the structure. The logs are attached to wooden fins that project the tips upwards like the spikes of a hedgehog's coat.

The Hybrid Hut by Rojkind Arquitectos

"With the evolution of technology in the industry, it puts into question the participation of artisans in the construction of the design space to the extent that the trades are disappearing," said Rojkind Arquitectos.

The Hybrid Hut by Rojkind Arquitectos

"What is the use of contemporary technology if it can't learn to grow with the processes already acquired by artisans and traditions?" they added.

RAW:almond by OS31

One of the 2015 Warming Huts structures even houses a restaurant – RAW:almond by British studio OS31 is a cross-shaped tent with a scaffolding framework and a canvas covering. The cross-braced struts are intended to reference the geometry of a nearby bridge.

"Our approach was to develop a simple repetitive frame using standard scaffolding elements to create an elegant structure," said the studio. "The structure is expressed externally to allow that interior space to be clean and free of visual clutter."

RAW:almond by OS31

Inside, the white canvas drapes away from the frame to create a space with a pitched ceiling. "The skin pinches and expands creating areas within the space that are both private and communal," added the architects.

Long wooden tables for communal dining, a kitchen and private dining areas are arranged along the arms of the crucifix. Cylindrical lanterns with perforated stainless-steel shades cast a speckled pattern of light and shadow on the canvas walls.

The structure was inspired by the Looney Tunes' Road Runner cartoon. According to the architects, the coyote character in the cartoon used a tunnel in various attempts to ensnare the eponymous speedy bird.

The Hole Idea by Weiss Architecture & Urbanism Limited

"Almost right from inception, the ominous, mobile void was put to use for evil purposes," explained Weiss, who added the bright yellow and blue colouring to draw skaters into the tunnel.

"The hole is resistant to being co-opted by evil forces, including the greyness of soul-sucking foul weather, due to the sheer cheeriness of the palette of introduced colour."

This Big by Tina Soli & Luca Roncoroni

Less functional installations were also included in the competition. One of these, created by Norwegian designer Tina Soli and architect Luca Roncoroni, features a sculpture carved from ice depicting a fish with a gaping mouth leaping from a hole towards a colourful bait on the end of a fishing line. Titled This Big, the piece is based on a tale of a giant mythical fish.

"We could say it is a 'semantic installation' or a 'social anthropological statement', but it is actually an ice sculpture, a big toy," said Soli and Roncoroni.

Recycling Words by KANVA Architecture

A fleet of red cafe chairs with skies affixed to their bases form a mobile installation called Recycling Words by Montreal studio KANVA Architecture.

Recycling Words by KANVA Architecture

Words relating to the history of the area are stencilled onto the back of each of the 50 chairs, allowing users to skid the seats along the ice and assemble them to form phrases.

Recycling Words by KANVA Architecture

"Diffused across the length of the Red River Mutual Trail, Recycling Words creates a visual explosion and recognisable marker for the various access points of the Assiniboine and Red rivers," said KANVA Architecture.

6043 by Kelvin High School students

A black metal fender radiates from the front of 6043, a red cubicle designed by local students from Kelvin High School. The grille is designed to resemble the bumper of a steam train – in particular the local No. 6043 locomotive, a train the team say was often used by residents to hitch free travel during the Great Depression.

6043 by Kelvin High School students

The 2015 Warming Huts are joined on the ice by 12 huts from previous years. The competition was supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Association of Architects, University of Manitoba, Faculty of Architecture & Partners Program, KGS Group, and Canada Culvert.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2015/02/28/warming-huts-ice-skater-shelter-winnipeg-frozen-river/feed/2Stone canopy by a21studio forms monastic pagoda in a Vietnam parkhttp://www.dezeen.com/2015/02/26/stone-pavilion-vietnam-a21studio-buddhist-pagoda/
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/02/26/stone-pavilion-vietnam-a21studio-buddhist-pagoda/#commentsThu, 26 Feb 2015 08:00:43 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=651992Intended to encourage more austere worship for Buddhists, this stone shelter in a Vietnam city park was designed by a21studio – the firm behind the 2014 World Building of the Year (+ slideshow). Ho Chi Minh-based a21studio – whose colourful community centre design won the top prize at last year's World Architecture Festival – built the Pagoda to offer an alternative to the […]

Ho Chi Minh-based a21studio – whose colourful community centre design won the top prize at last year's World Architecture Festival – built the Pagoda to offer an alternative to the more elaborate temples of Nha Trang, a city on Vietnam's coastline.

The architects believe these grand temples are superfluous and contrary to the ethos of the religion, so wanted to produce a pared-back place of worship more connected to the natural environment.

"Buddhism is struggling to adapt to modern society," said the team. "Buddhists, nowadays, prefer living in magnificent temples and monuments."

"As Buddhists, we are wondering whether it is too hard to renounce conveniences and comforts in the modern life."

The tiny 2.3- by 3-metre pavilion consists of a granite stone slab mounted on pillars made from twisted reinforced-steel rods.

A set of craggy stone steps lead up a rocky slope to the structure, which sits in a clearing among a patch of trees. It is open on all sides to the elements and has a floor of wild flowers and grasses.

Visitors must crouch to move beneath the shelter of the canopy, where a solitary candle rests on a ceramic saucer.

"People usually have to bend when they are entering a pagoda in Asia," explained studio architect Toan Nghiem. "That's a traditional way, like you are showing your respect."

According to the architects, the structure is inspired by the sheltering canopy of the sacred Bodhi Tree – under which Buddhist founder Siddhartha Gautama – the Buddha – is said to have attained enlightenment through meditation in the 6th century BC.

Concept sketch

"We made a pagoda, a place dedicated to the spirit, where users are not driven by the needs and comforts of life, as animals living among nature," added the team.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2015/02/26/stone-pavilion-vietnam-a21studio-buddhist-pagoda/feed/11Glazed pavilions form a community centre in the grounds of an old Flemish mansehttp://www.dezeen.com/2015/02/25/community-centre-old-flemish-manse-moorsel-belgium-de-kort-van-schaik-van-noten-architects/
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/02/25/community-centre-old-flemish-manse-moorsel-belgium-de-kort-van-schaik-van-noten-architects/#commentsWed, 25 Feb 2015 22:00:10 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=652657These two glass and steel pavilions erected by architecture collective De Kort Van Schaik Van Noten in the gardens of a disused presbytery form a community hall and youth club for a Belgian village (+ slideshow). The Moorsel Community Centre was conceived by De Kort Van Schaik Van Noten – a collaborative made up of Rotterdam-based De Kort […]

]]>These two glass and steel pavilions erected by architecture collective De Kort Van Schaik Van Noten in the gardens of a disused presbytery form a community hall and youth club for a Belgian village (+ slideshow).

The Moorsel Community Centre was conceived by De Kort Van Schaik Van Noten – a collaborative made up of Rotterdam-based De Kort Van Schaik and Antwerp studio Van Noten Architects – for the site of a listed 18th-century pastor's house and its walled gardens in Moorsel, a village about 20 miles north-west of Brussels.

The architects left the existing building unaltered, adding two new structures along one side of the site to house the multi-purpose hall and self-contained youth club. They also opened up the existing walled gardens to create a public park.

"In adding new buildings to the presbytery complex, the goal was to find a way of integrating them with the characteristic ensemble of presbytery and walled garden," the De Kort Van Schaik team told Dezeen.

"The guiding principle was that the new architecture should confirm the presbytery's status as the most expressive building at the top of the garden and extend, as if it were one of the garden walls, along one side of the garden," they explained.

The two structures feature glass walls with black steel frames, concrete floors, and a flat timber and steel roof. The glazing is set away from the edge of the concrete floor and roof slabs to create a narrow covered walkway along the edges of both buildings.

The community hall is situated closest to the old stone church, while the youth club sits at the bottom of the garden in a more wooded area of the site.

The hall is used by village residents for parties, meetings and the occasional film night, while the second structure forms a new home for the village youth group.

A strip of landscaping containing a stage and seating area separates the two buildings. Low concrete walls and bracing steel trusses provide some privacy and shelter for the garden, while breaks in the wall offer links with the larger gardens and give views of a church steeple.

"The new architecture allows the public to experience the unique atmosphere of the historical heritage," added the architects.

"This would be a shelter where it would be possible to sit and relax and admire the surrounding garden, lake and mountains whilst our clients could partake of one of their favourite pastimes without affecting anybody in the house: the old-fashioned art of smoking," explained the design team.

"Our idea was to create a simple structure sitting quietly in the garden, possessing a richness and complexity in its materiality that would develop several relationships with the surroundings."

The small structure was built from five slabs of translucent concrete – an aggregate material made by casting light-conducting elements into fine-grain concrete.

In this case small rods of acrylic plastic, also known as PMMA, were set into the concrete in a dense grid. These make the material slightly see-through, allowing a small amount of daylight and shadow to permeate the pavilion's interior.

"We have been aware of the existence of translucent concrete since it was first invented in 2001 and it felt like the appropriate material for this project, because it allowed surrounding colours, shapes, movements and shadows to be perceived from the interior," they added.

The five concrete slabs form the floor, roof and three walls. The architects believe it is the first ever self-supporting translucent-concrete building.

"The casting was a delicate operation because of the combination of the dense pattern of PMMA translucent elements, the carefully positioned stainless-steel reinforcement and the thinness of the panels," the architects said. "The final material looks very simple, but is in fact the result of precise and advanced engineering."

Two strip foundations lift the building up off the lawn, meaning part of the floor slab had to be cantilevered. Each slab has a thickness of 80 millimetres to prevent the structure looking too bulky.

After dark, integrated lighting allows the concrete surface to glow with colour.